Will Isis be OP?

[Sito]

If God powers are reusable. Not only does she get to block them in her base, she can abuse them endlessly.
How will they balance this out?

[The_Count]

i think they'll be on a timer, powerful powers having longer cooldowns, less stronger ones shorter cooldowns, that's how i'd do it and i would throw into the mix resources, so whenever you use a god power you'd need a certain amount of gold/food/wood/faith that would act as an offering to the god granting the power you want to use, the stronger the power the more expensive it would be and a longer cooldown to prevent abuse

[jonoliveira12]

All Egyptians were OP, even without reusable GPs.
I am sure the game will be rebalanced, but not having to pay for most buildings, and getting Pharaos acting as a local extra Eco upgrade; already puts Eggys on top of everyone else.

The tradeoff is that Eggys have terrible Barracks units, and are dependant on Migdol units, so they always have to Fast Heroic.
This gives you a window to damage them, but if you cannot, you will be outteched and overwhelmed, by actual good units and a better Economy.

And taht is without any GPs coming to account. Most Eggy GPs are only there to delay the game and allow them time to tech up anyway.

[IHaveNoMercy]

Originally posted by jonoliveira12:

All Egyptians were OP, even without reusable GPs.
I am sure the game will be rebalanced, but not having to pay for most buildings, and getting Pharaos acting as a local extra Eco upgrade; already puts Eggys on top of everyone else.

The tradeoff is that Eggys have terrible Barracks units, and are dependant on Migdol units, so they always have to Fast Heroic.
This gives you a window to damage them, but if you cannot, you will be outteched and overwhelmed, by actual good units and a better Economy.

And taht is without any GPs coming to account. Most Eggy GPs are only there to delay the game and allow them time to tech up anyway.

Never stopped ScubaSteve from doing a 5-6m spearmen rush with shifting sands and taking out greeks/norse players back in the day xD I for one am more interested in playing the Settlers 3v3 maps again from back when, that was well balanced. I always played at a high level and won alot with Thor.

[Chocos Ramabotti]

Egyptians need to be OP, they are the most ancient culture with the most powerful gods lore-wise.

[jonoliveira12]

Originally posted by Chocos Ramabotti:

Egyptians need to be OP, they are the most ancient culture with the most powerful gods lore-wise.

No, that would be the Atlanteans, in both cases.
It is also false that any civilizations "needs to be OP", for any reason, as this is a game, and games need to have quite a degree of fairness to be played between several people.

[Imago_Mortis]

I will speculate that we will get a new game type. Current game types will stay the same and new game mode will be something like "GODS OVERKILL", where you will have endless god powers :)

[jonoliveira12]

Originally posted by Imago_Mortis:

I will speculate that we will get a new game type. Current game types will stay the same and new game mode will be something like "GODS OVERKILL", where you will have endless god powers :)

They already confirmed that God Powers will be rechargeable, in the base modes.
This game will have SIGNIFICANT differences to base AoM. Pop cap will be larger, and GPs will be reausable.

[Rhalius]

I figure the cooldowns on godpowers will be adjusted for balance reasons. Some from the same age might still take longer or shorter to recharge.

Maybe some can't be recharged though, plentyvault recharging might be a bit much unless it causes the previous one to disappear.

As for Isis, the effect could still be tweaked some. Like maybe the first two wonders don't do that, only the last three.

[jonoliveira12]

I think we can be pretty sure that something like Plenty Vault will still be a one-off.
Maybe even some of the other Mythic GPs too, like Tartarian Gate, as they could easily become abusable if you could make more than one, or Ragnarok/Fimbulwinter, since they have a huge impact that is often stronger than Thot Meteors or Atlas Implode.

[Rhalius]

It will likely take some patches to balance properly since it might make tartarian gate a lot less interesting if you can only do that once yet your oponent keeps getting their meteor shower back.

My guess is that the tartarian gate's cooldown could perhaps only start once the one on the map is destroyed. That would ensure there's never more than one, at least not from the same player.